Improvement in horseshoes



UNITED STATEs PATENT CEEICE.

CHARLES H. PERKINS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESH-OES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 194,783, dated September 4, 1877; application filed December 26, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES H. PERKINS, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island; have made certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do bereby declare that the following specification, taken in con neet-ion with the drawing, making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure l is a plan view of a horseshoe, Which illustrates my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

The object of my invention is to so construct the shoe that it may be easily tted to hoofs of diii'erent sizes Without det-racting from its strength and durability.

In tting shoes to the hoof it often becomes necessary' to shorten them. This is usually done by cutting them oft' at the heel, which, in the case of shoes having heelcallrs at the extreme end, removes a portion of the calli, and consequently diminishes the strength and durability of the shoe. A

In my invention the heel of the shoe extends beyond the heel-calli, as shown at a, so that in case it becomes necessary to shorten the shoe in fitting, a portion of the thin end may be easily removed without disturbing the calli.

The extension ot' the heel beyond the calk has also the advantage of bringing the calk more directly under the hoof.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A horseshoe having heel-calks located some distance in from the heel of the shoe, and with the heel portions made thin, as described, so that theshoe may be shortened Without impairing its strength and durability, as set forth.

C. H. PERKINS.

Witnesses WALTER B. VINCENT, G. M. CARPENTER, J r. 

